Turn shoe



Sept. 18, 1928.

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' Filed Dec. 19, 1927 IN VENTOR Patented Sept. 18, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RUBIN KAMINSKY, 0F JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNQ R TO MELROSE SLIPPEB CO. INC., OF NEW YORK,,N. Y., A CORPORATION 0'? NEW YORK.

\ TURN SHOE.

Application filed December 19, 1927. Serial No. 241,032.

This invention relates to shoes or mules for indoor Wear. Turn shoes of this type have been made heretofore with a soft outsole, inwhich certain advantages in fit, comfort and economy of manufacture have been secured. An object of the present invention is to produce a turn shoe having a. hard outsoie in which all the advantages of the soft sole shoe will be retained and others secured.

My novel shoe is constructed with apronounced ocket formed upon the inner surface of t e outsole which serves to rece ve and permanently retain in position a thick but soft tiller. shoe bottom, readily conforming to the wearers foot and rendering the shoe coin-- a flexible feather I am enabled to perform the sewing o erations required in manufacturing, the slioe b the use of a straight needle machine, wiich may be operated at higher speed and with less shill than the curved needle machine usually employed in the manufacture of hard sole turn shoes.

These and other features of my invention will be best understood and appreciated from the following description of a preferred embodiment thereof, selected for purposes of illustration and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a view in erspective, in inverted position, of a sole with the upper partially stitched thereto;

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing a later stage in the manufacture of the shoe;

Fi 3 is a sectional View on the line 33- of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is a View in elevation of a completed This affords a soft and warm The type of sole Femploy in the shoe of my invention is a fairly stiff split or grain sole, preferably three or four irons tuck,

although its thickness would, of course, be

varied in accordance with the characteristics of the work in hand. Such an outsole 12 is shown in the drawings and it is shouldered or reduced about its margin to form a feather 14 sutliciently thin and flexible tobe turned up into the desired position and easily stitched by a straight needle machine.

The first operation in the manufacture of the shoe after the outsole has been prepared consists in sewing the margin of the upper 16 to the grain face of the feather of the outsole. This may. be carried out, as willbe apparent from Fig. 3. with the feather 14 in substantially horizontal position and the seam 18 is preferably located about midway of the width of the feather. My invention is herein shown as embodied in the construction of a mule and, consequently, the seam terminates at the breast edge of the heel seat, although in constructing a shoe it is obvious that the seam may extend to any desired )oint in the heel seat or completely about it.

he outsole 12 is shown as cut away at its rear end, forming a tongue for reception within the cupped seat of a Wood heel, but a full length sole may be employed where required by the style of the sho After the upper has been completely attached to the feather of the outsole, the feather is turned upwardly about the flesh side of the outsole, forming an elon ated pocket in which is placed a filler 22 0 any soft resilient material. This may advantageously comprise a body of coarse fibre felt backed on one or both surfaces with buckram and died out to form a blank of the proper shape and thickness to fill the pocket. The pocket is closed and the filler enclosed by a cover piece 24 corresponding to the shape of the filler blank and oversearned to the mar in of the upper 16 across or throu h the feat or 14, the seam being indicated gy reference character 26. Both the filler blank and the cover piece, in the mule illustrated, terminate adjacent to the breast line of the heel seat. The condition of the shoe when it has been brought to this stage of manufeature is indicated by Fig. 4.

The next step in the manufacture of the shoe consists in turning it and, in this oporation; the sole which has heretofore been located within the upper is brought into the osition it occupies in the finished mule. It has been found that a particularly favorable condition for turning the sole is created by securing the thick filler in coexten sive relation thereto as above outlined, in that the filler prevents bending the sole so sharply as to crackit and, further, the parts hssembled in this manner acquire a stability of structure which is beneficial in preserving the shape of the shoe.

A stifi'ener, comprising a stiff fibre shank piece 20, may next he slipped into the pocket in the shoe bottom, being located above the filler 22 and beneath the cover piece 24. The heel 28 is then attached by nails driven through the rear end of the outsole and. if desired, through the stiffener when that is need. The shank piece is shaped at its rear end to constitute the heel seat of the mule and may be secured permanently in place by tacks 2i driven into the. outsole 12. The shank piece compresses and reduces the thickness of the rear portion of the filler .22, forming a smooth continuous curve at the inside of the shank.

The usual processes of shoemaking are then carried forward and the assembling of the shoe ,is completed by the insertion of a padded or quilted slip sole 30, which is shrped to fit the interior of theshoe and form a smooth continuous inner bottom sur face. At the proper time, the last is inserted and the shoe is finished by the usual ironing operations, which smooth the upper and compact the folds formed at the seams of the shoe.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: y L

1. A hard sole shoe or mule having a sole 7 reduced in thickness on the-flesh side to form a feather and havin the feather turned up about its margin to em an elongated pocket, an upper sewed to the outer face of the feather and doubled back upon itself. a soft resilient filler located in the elongated pocket of the sole, a. cover piece closing the pocket enclosing the filler and bein overseamed to the edge of the upturned Feather, and a shank stifi'ener located between the cover piece and the filler.

2. A hard sole turn shoe or mule having a stiff grain sole reduced about its margin and formed with a flexible upstanding feather, a blank of soft resilient filler disposed Within the walls formed by said feather, maintained in coextensive relation to the outsole and terminating at the breast line of the heel seat, and a shank piece extending rearwardly beyond the end of the f ller blank and extending forwardly above the same.

A shoe or mule having a hard sole reduced about its margin to Iorm a thin flexible lip which is turned up to form a pocket on the flesh side of the sole, a filler located in said pocket, a cover piece closing the pocket except at its rear end, a heel secured to the sole, a shank piece projecting forwardlyinto the pocket from the rear end thereof and being secured at the heel end of the shoe, and a slip sole extending for the full length of the shoe bottom.

4. A turn shoe having a stiff grain sole reduced about its margin to form a thin feather which is turned to an upstanding po sition forming a pocket on the flesh-side of the sole, a layer of soft material shaped to fit the pocket, upper materials having the margin thereof secured by stitching to the outer face of ".aid upstanding feather, and a cover piece over the forepart of said soft layer having its margin stitched across the upturned feather to the surrounding upper materials outside said feather.

RUBIN KAMINSKY.

CERTIFICATE or CORRECTION.

Patent No. 1 684543.

Granted September 18, 1928, to

RUBIN KAMINSK Y. i

It is hereby certified-that error appears in the printed specification of the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows:

slide"; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with word "sole read Page 1, line 19, for the this correction therein thatthe same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 20th day of November, A. l). 1928.

(Seal) M. J. Moore, Acting Commissioner of Patents.

located within the upper is brought into the osition it occupies in the finished mule. It has been found that a particularly favorable condition for turning the sole is created by securing the thick filler in coexten sive relation thereto as above outlined, in that the filler prevents bending the sole so sharply as to crackit and, further, the parts hssembled in this manner acquire a stability of structure which is beneficial in preserving the shape of the shoe.

A stifi'ener, comprising a stiff fibre shank piece 20, may next he slipped into the pocket in the shoe bottom, being located above the filler 22 and beneath the cover piece 24. The heel 28 is then attached by nails driven through the rear end of the outsole and. if desired, through the stiffener when that is need. The shank piece is shaped at its rear end to constitute the heel seat of the mule and may be secured permanently in place by tacks 2i driven into the. outsole 12. The shank piece compresses and reduces the thickness of the rear portion of the filler .22, forming a smooth continuous curve at the inside of the shank.

The usual processes of shoemaking are then carried forward and the assembling of the shoe ,is completed by the insertion of a padded or quilted slip sole 30, which is shrped to fit the interior of theshoe and form a smooth continuous inner bottom sur face. At the proper time, the last is inserted and the shoe is finished by the usual ironing operations, which smooth the upper and compact the folds formed at the seams of the shoe.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: y L

1. A hard sole shoe or mule having a sole 7 reduced in thickness on the-flesh side to form a feather and havin the feather turned up about its margin to em an elongated pocket, an upper sewed to the outer face of the feather and doubled back upon itself. a soft resilient filler located in the elongated pocket of the sole, a. cover piece closing the pocket enclosing the filler and bein overseamed to the edge of the upturned Feather, and a shank stifi'ener located between the cover piece and the filler.

2. A hard sole turn shoe or mule having a stiff grain sole reduced about its margin and formed with a flexible upstanding feather, a blank of soft resilient filler disposed Within the walls formed by said feather, maintained in coextensive relation to the outsole and terminating at the breast line of the heel seat, and a shank piece extending rearwardly beyond the end of the f ller blank and extending forwardly above the same.

A shoe or mule having a hard sole reduced about its margin to Iorm a thin flexible lip which is turned up to form a pocket on the flesh side of the sole, a filler located in said pocket, a cover piece closing the pocket except at its rear end, a heel secured to the sole, a shank piece projecting forwardlyinto the pocket from the rear end thereof and being secured at the heel end of the shoe, and a slip sole extending for the full length of the shoe bottom.

4. A turn shoe having a stiff grain sole reduced about its margin to form a thin feather which is turned to an upstanding po sition forming a pocket on the flesh-side of the sole, a layer of soft material shaped to fit the pocket, upper materials having the margin thereof secured by stitching to the outer face of ".aid upstanding feather, and a cover piece over the forepart of said soft layer having its margin stitched across the upturned feather to the surrounding upper materials outside said feather.

RUBIN KAMINSKY.

CERTIFICATE or CORRECTION.

Patent No. 1 684543.

Granted September 18, 1928, to

RUBIN KAMINSK Y. i

It is hereby certified-that error appears in the printed specification of the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows:

slide"; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with word "sole read Page 1, line 19, for the this correction therein thatthe same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 20th day of November, A. l). 1928.

(Seal) M. J. Moore, Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

